Prog to save 'panorama' sites?

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I just saved them using the standard right-click, "Save Picture as" option.
The one image is actually a series of smaller images. Just wait for the
scene to "change", right-click and save again. You'll save a new image to
your drive each time.

A quick look at the source code shows that it's a javascript doing the
panning. You could probably Google for one, or try modifying the one on the
page.

Alternately. . .

Irfanview has the ability to create a panorama. (I haven't used this
function myself, but I know it exists.) Once you have all the shots,
"stitch" them up using Irfanview.

Irfanview has a nice ability to "pan." Open your panorama shot in Irfanview
and choose "View | Display Options | Fit Images to Desktop Height." Now you
can use the scroll bar at the bottom to pan across your scene. I do this
with scenery shots taken while on vacations. It's a nifty effect. . .

Alternately, just open the large image directly in Internet Explorer. As
long as its pixel height is less than your screen height in pixels (minus a
bit more for taskbars, menus, etc) you should be able to do the same trick.

M
 
Michael Laplante said:
I just saved them using the standard right-click, "Save Picture as" option.
The one image is actually a series of smaller images. Just wait for the
scene to "change", right-click and save again. You'll save a new image to
your drive each time.

A quick look at the source code shows that it's a javascript doing the
panning. You could probably Google for one, or try modifying the one on the
page.

Alternately. . .

Irfanview has the ability to create a panorama. (I haven't used this
function myself, but I know it exists.) Once you have all the shots,
"stitch" them up using Irfanview.

Irfanview has a nice ability to "pan." Open your panorama shot in Irfanview
and choose "View | Display Options | Fit Images to Desktop Height." Now you
can use the scroll bar at the bottom to pan across your scene. I do this
with scenery shots taken while on vacations. It's a nifty effect. . .

Alternately, just open the large image directly in Internet Explorer. As
long as its pixel height is less than your screen height in pixels (minus a
bit more for taskbars, menus, etc) you should be able to do the same trick.
Click to expand...

Thanks, Michael, that gives me some interesting approaches to pursue.
But I should have been more explicit about my end objective. I've just
started making DVDs for family showing. Input is mainly my JPG holiday
photos, plus an MP3 sound track. The program is MemoriesOnTV (not
freeware). It can also support MPEG files, so that's the format I want
from any panoramas.

I was thinking along the lines of software equivalent to that which
can save streaming *audio*, or any audio I'm listening to on my PC,
usually as a WAV file initially, so that I can then convert it to MP3
or WMA. Anyone know of a video parallel of that please?
 
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:12:01 +0100, in message
Occasionally I come across 'panoramic' views such as these:
http://www.nuttalls.com/articles/madeira/madeira-panorama.htm
http://www.wherenow.net/117~90~61~368.html
(BTW, that second one won't work in my Firefox browser - had to use
IE.)
Click to expand...

The second one works here in Firefox.

The first one won't work unless I spoof the User-Agent string. Then it works.
In other words, Firefox can handle it but the page tries not to allow Firefox to.

Does anyone know of freeware that would let me save these as files on
my HD for later playing please?
Click to expand...

Firefox will save both of these.


These use two different technologies.

1. The first one is implemented using Javascript.

You can use Firefox to save it for later viewing.

File -> Save Page As
Save as type: Web Page, complete

2. The second one is implemented in QuickTime (embedding a QuickTime object).

You can use Firefox to save it for later viewing (like above),
but if you save it in Firefox then it will be viewable in Firefox,
but will not be viewable off-line in IE.

That is because the page contains two sets of HTML code for embedding
the QuickTime object, one for IE and one for other browsers including Firefox.
When Firefox saves the page it adjusts the "other browsers including Firefox"
code to use the saved QuickTime object. But it does not understand the
IE specific code.
 
Ralph Fox said:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:12:01 +0100, in message


The second one works here in Firefox.

The first one won't work unless I spoof the User-Agent string. Then it works.
In other words, Firefox can handle it but the page tries not to allow Firefox to.



Firefox will save both of these.


These use two different technologies.

1. The first one is implemented using Javascript.

You can use Firefox to save it for later viewing.

File -> Save Page As
Save as type: Web Page, complete

2. The second one is implemented in QuickTime (embedding a QuickTime object).

You can use Firefox to save it for later viewing (like above),
but if you save it in Firefox then it will be viewable in Firefox,
but will not be viewable off-line in IE.

That is because the page contains two sets of HTML code for embedding
the QuickTime object, one for IE and one for other browsers including Firefox.
When Firefox saves the page it adjusts the "other browsers including Firefox"
code to use the saved QuickTime object. But it does not understand the
IE specific code.
Click to expand...

Thanks Ralph. Guess you hadn't seen my follow-up specifying MPEG. Any
ideas on that please?
 
Terry Pinnell said:
"Michael Laplante" <[email protected]> wrote:
Click to expand...
Thanks, Michael, that gives me some interesting approaches to pursue.
But I should have been more explicit about my end objective. I've just
started making DVDs for family showing. Input is mainly my JPG holiday
photos, plus an MP3 sound track. The program is MemoriesOnTV (not
freeware). It can also support MPEG files, so that's the format I want
from any panoramas.
Click to expand...

I've played around with MemoriesOnTV. IIRC, it can pan across an image
already can't it? Can't you just feed it your panoramic image and let it do
its stuff? Perhaps you can't control the degree of panning or similar
though?

If you need to produce an MPEG (I'm assuming MPEG1) two suggestions:

1. Slide Show Movie Maker is a free program that's used to create an .avi
file from a series of .bmp or .jpg images.
http://www.joern-thiemann.de/subpage/index.htm?/tools/ssmm/ Then find a
freeware avi-to-mpeg converter. I know there are some out there.

or:

2. There is a program called Rostrum Camera.
(http://www.price-media.demon.co.uk/rostrum.html) It will produce a
sequential series of bmps, jpgs, or gifs by panning across a picture. Use a
freeware image-to-avi converter and / or avi-to-mpg converter to produce
your mpg for inclusion in MfTV.

The problem I think you'll discover is the loss of image quality that
accompanies an avi-to-mpg conversion. I've been playing around in this field
for awhile now. (I'm talking conversion to MPEG1 not MPEG2. You won't find
freeware converters for that.)

Good luck. . .

M
 
Michael Laplante said:
I've played around with MemoriesOnTV. IIRC, it can pan across an image
already can't it? Can't you just feed it your panoramic image and let it do
its stuff? Perhaps you can't control the degree of panning or similar
though?
Click to expand...

The inbuilt panning facility is handy, but of limited value in this
context. To see the entire 360 deg panorama, I found I need about 10
images (overlapping of course). So I'd have to pan across each of
them, probably with irritating repetition of the overlap, and
inaccuracies due to the image captures not being precisely aligned,
etc. I'll try it though, and report back.
If you need to produce an MPEG (I'm assuming MPEG1) two suggestions:

1. Slide Show Movie Maker is a free program that's used to create an .avi
file from a series of .bmp or .jpg images.
http://www.joern-thiemann.de/subpage/index.htm?/tools/ssmm/ Then find a
freeware avi-to-mpeg converter. I know there are some out there.
Click to expand...
or:

2. There is a program called Rostrum Camera.
(http://www.price-media.demon.co.uk/rostrum.html) It will produce a
sequential series of bmps, jpgs, or gifs by panning across a picture. Use a
freeware image-to-avi converter and / or avi-to-mpg converter to produce
your mpg for inclusion in MfTV.

The problem I think you'll discover is the loss of image quality that
accompanies an avi-to-mpg conversion. I've been playing around in this field
for awhile now. (I'm talking conversion to MPEG1 not MPEG2. You won't find
freeware converters for that.)

Good luck. . .
Click to expand...

Thanks, sounds promising, although apparently not going to be the
no-brainer I was hoping for <g>.
 
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:12:01 +0100, in message


The second one works here in Firefox.

The first one won't work unless I spoof the User-Agent string. Then it works.
In other words, Firefox can handle it but the page tries not to allow Firefox to.



Firefox will save both of these.


These use two different technologies.

1. The first one is implemented using Javascript.

You can use Firefox to save it for later viewing.

File -> Save Page As
Save as type: Web Page, complete

2. The second one is implemented in QuickTime (embedding a QuickTime object).

You can use Firefox to save it for later viewing (like above),
but if you save it in Firefox then it will be viewable in Firefox,
but will not be viewable off-line in IE.

That is because the page contains two sets of HTML code for embedding
the QuickTime object, one for IE and one for other browsers including Firefox.
When Firefox saves the page it adjusts the "other browsers including Firefox"
code to use the saved QuickTime object. But it does not understand the
IE specific code.
Click to expand...

Thanks Ralph. Guess you hadn't seen my follow-up specifying MPEG. Any
ideas on that please?[/QUOTE]


Use a screen capture program which captures a portion of the screen,
over a time, to a video file.


The originals are still images. However you do it, converting to
a moving MPEG movie with many frames can give a large increase in
size.
 
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